Beware the Language of God

It should go without saying that God speaks to us by illustration. That is pretty much what manifestation is. We SEE what He says because it IS what He is. Consider what you see as verbal, for it is a verb. The consciousness of the Ineffable is what It is DOING. We see a process which is our historical situation. He is the things that happen; they are His speech. Not that He cannot or does not speak to us "audibly," in the atmosphere or right into the brain. But every moment of existence is for illumination in the process of manifesting Him. He thinks, and we should be thinking, too, for we are His imagination. We are coming on line, getting up to speed - "waking up."

My warning is that God's speech becomes historical, and what He says is repetitive. Part of the value of studying the Bible is learning what He has said, is saying, and is going to say again in a situation, because you can be sure it is coming like a freight train. I do not demean God by saying that He is like a scratched record (old-school vinyl, kids) that keeps repeating the same track over and over, because what He says is what He is doing. Here is a major theme God keeps trying to mush into our heads: "The Age (of the Old Testament) has ended, and the Kingdom of God has arrived. Repent and believe in the Hope [of the Kingdom]" (Mark 1:15 Alexander). That is the promise, the gospel/reward of spiritual quickening that is here and available to whomever will hear. Its fulfillment can become historical, your history, when entered into as the real deal. Otherwise, the call through self-caused affliction gets repeated. Lucky you.

God keeps knocking at the door in whatever situation we are in. Our expulsion from the Garden was for our illumination. The Season of Grace happened. Some got it (understanding and quickening by the Spirit), while others did not. Noah's flood was God saying, "This way, not that." The Ashurai (Genesis 10:22), descendants of Shem, came out of Nimrod's (Cush's descendants) lands (Genesis 10:11) because they had got it and defeated Nimrod. That is language. You want to be like them. Samuel rejecting Saul like God is something you do not want for yourself. Being a person after God's own heart is something you do. Visiting the third heaven is good. Being stoned by Judaizers means they do not like you. Rising up after being stoned means God does. Sinking into the tumultuous waves of sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll means maybe you should keep your eyes upon Jesus and a pure life. There is deliverance in believing what we see.

We can reply to God by the language of what we do. We are, after all, His manifestation. What we do because of what we think is as causative as thinking what we want to do as though we had done it. THAT is why we are supposed to keep the Mosaic law. It is not for merit, but for becoming more like Him. Which brings us to the "last days" everyone is so concerned about. They have been last for a long time. I do not know if they will remain individual - a personal pattern each goes through - or become a whole-world statement of the same message. The world situation is not looking very good, but it has looked bad for many people many times. Be repented up and remember the confession: "There is only one God. Jesus is God, and I am, too. I am a Christian. There are not any other gods than the True God." Stay true.

The Mark of the Beast has Nothing to do with Buying and Selling

The mark of the beast (Revelation 13) has nothing to do with buying and/or selling. The ability to buy and sell are used simply as extortion to make people CONFESS a separate god divided from and other than the true God who is manifested as everything. There is not a separate manifestation. A separate, remote-controlled creation does not even make sense. Anyone who does not need to buy or sell still makes the confession if they believe that God is separate from His creation. There is only the One Ineffable True God who by Its wisdom and power has imagined and has Itself become everything. To love and honor It humbly in full submission to It - doing whatever It says to do - is simply the right thing to do.

The Division

Everything is God's manifestation. And all that God IS is to be manifest. In my view, the ineffable No-thing became conscious of Itself, and over unimaginable ages developed Its self-awareness, knowledge, wisdom, and powers. It has had a lot of time to think, to develop, to resolve -- to perfect Itself. Part of this self-perfecting has been the constant improvement of what It does. What is good continues to be improved still more. It - the Ineffable - started out ignorant, and became the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent Self-existent One, whose consciousness is the Big Guy we call God, the Holy Ghost, and Jesus.

What has been eliminated over all these ages is Its own ignorance, doubt, and fear. And It is manifesting. Just what do you think is going to manifest, and how? From a spark of imagination is the whole manifested through the eternal DEVELOPMENT the Ineffable went through. Its ignorance manifests to be used as impetus for us as it was for Him. We develop through struggle with it, learning through experience, overcoming it in Christ. But after being used it is ELIMINATED - cast into the incinerator, forgotten, undone. Hence all keepers are kept, and the abominable are "oblivionated" (Alexander's term).

God promises to keep His own, to protect and to perfect all of them. THEY (hopefully, we) are "every child born of woman," as Jesus was born of Mary. "Hey Dan, that's symbolic stuff!" Yes, exactly. We are all imagination (all of us, and all we are), and I do not believe that the God-rejecting rebellious, unregenerate stiff-necked haters of Light get to come back to the party in what Neville called restoration in the imagination of God. What God does is His language, the image of His being. Listen up.

The Man In The Bible

Read Neville Goddard's lecture The Nature of God. There is only one man in the Bible: God.  You.

So how do you bridge the two?  What are you doing with your life?  It is His life, you know.  Are you praying?  Learning?  Experimenting with faith?  Listen to what the Bible says.  Christ (a verb).  God (likewise).  Imagine, speak, and believe.  Try to be as you are (seated in heaven in Christ) with knowledge and wisdom trusting the rest of Him "over the flames" (the Power and Wisdom "over the flames" - beyond the stars - is the meaning of the Hebrew word Elohim).  You are the Man.

My Deal With God

I do not mean deal like bargain. I mean deal like experience - the deal I went through. My problem is that Jesus had the right to forgive me for robbing God of what I should have been doing for Him. Jesus had gained that right by his love and obedience of suffering the torments and death he did. I saw him go through them in a vision at the House of Praise in Kaimuki. I could not repay God for the perfect life He had given me, because my life was shortened and soiled by my sins and previous rebellion. By going through what he did, Jesus gained the right to rise from the dead, to own me and to forgive me if he so wished.

The thing is, it wasn't that he had paid for my sins. I was still bearing those. He had earned for himself by his love and obedience. The only thing was that he rose from the dead and was entitled in his ascension. There I sat. All I could do was to thank him for forgiving me, giving me his life, the credit for his love and obedience, his resurrection, and his ascension. I had no idea of how I could possibly get to him, but he said - audibly in my mind - "Come unto Me."

Third Time's The Charm, And It Is Coming

Before the Big Bang God created (imagined) the heavens and the earth that would be - as though they were - and everything that it would take to make them perfectly manifest Him. It took awhile, but the Eternal has a lot of time on His hands. In this creation was His descent as the Beginning and His full ascent as the End. At its end He might have said to Himself something like, "Okay, Let's get this show on the road."

The Season of Grace's culmination in the life, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ was a commemoration of the Beginning and a milestone marking the promised ascent to the End. The ascent is being completed. Revelation is its coming fulfillment, but we have to buy into it now. This is all really Jewish stuff. No wonder the ignorance hates them: the ascent's fulfillment is its death.

Neil Tyson said the Bible is a description of nature. He was correct.  What the Bible says is going on is the real nature we are in and of. We cannot see it as clearly, but you can bet your bottom dollar that it is the biblical nature which will win out.

My Gap

Neil Tyson is a public face for the scientific community. Hence he is asked by representatives of the religious community for his opinion about God and the Bible, which he dismisses. He apparently believes the Bible is a description of nature, not mind. He does not see in this world the expression of an all-powerful, all-loving God. Tyson makes a case out of Jesus casting a demon out of an epileptic boy (Luke 9:40-44). He says that when you have a seizure and foam at the mouth, you have epilepsy, not a demon. "There is a frontier of scientific knowledge, and the religious would say that beyond that border is the mystery of God. That is a God-of-the-gap, an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance" (quote not verbatim).

I love that Gap. My ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance is also never ending. What Tyson apparently misses in his example of the epileptic boy is that Jesus HEALED him. That was miraculous, not medicinal. Yes, in a religious experience such as the baptism in the Holy Ghost the scientists can see the neural chemicals produced and location of the synapses firing in ecstasy, but not the Gap producing it. I love that Gap.

I once stood sober-minded in a prayer by Charles Hunter, who asked simply that Jesus make the limbs indicated the right length. I WATCHED my left arm lengthen a fraction of an inch. Others had much more significant movement, but nothing has ever been more significant to me than watching my arm grow out with no movement on my part. What is the science on that Gap? I am not saying that there isn't any, but that is the gap I want to learn about. My God is God on both sides of the border, a God of nature AND of mystery. I am glad to have the pocket of my scientific ignorance diminished, and to have the pocket of my spiritual ignorance diminished, too.

A God Who loves and responds. You have got to give Him something to respond to. Please give me some science on that. I love that Gap.

The Lie Is Two

I am convinced that all that is wrong in the world is the idea of a separation of creation from God, that there is division, "other"-ness; that the nothing God created the universe out of was not the No-thing It is. Man saw this ignorant idea in the Garden and thought, "God is separate, gone, not here at the moment. I am separate from Him, other, something else. There is division; I am alone."

Not so, cupcake. The Whole never descended, but the Sent did. We are here T.A.D. (temporary assigned duty) to manifest the Ineffable as much as It can be manifested. That quality in us has to be GENERATED, developed through a process. It is a nature which is acquired over time through experience and resolutions. Its achievement is discovered, found, and when discovered, sought. Through seeking through problems we become what we were - but better! Instead of being mere reflectors of life we become affectors of life (Neville Goddard, How To Use Your Imagination), the created creating, the Divine imagination IMAGINING.

It turns out that God was never gone, separate, or divided. He has just been us, here, becoming.

Ignorance Presents A Counterfeit

Our inherent ignorance of what and Who we are causes a perceived but unreal separation between God (the Ineffable and Its consciousness) and Its manifestation (everything It has become). The Creator has become the created (imagined), but the Creation “just don't get it.” This, unfortunately, is the order of the Church.

When I was first saved it registered upon me that the world was not as I had learned from childhood, but rather as the Bible says it is. What I did not get was HOW it was as the Bible says it is. I did get, however, that how I had seen the world in the occult was a counterfeit. What had been presented in the occult was real, but it was not what it purported to be. That is the nature of a counterfeit: it is substantive, "real," but it is worthless. It does not buy what you expect.

The Purple Curtain of Branham’s 1933 Prophetic Vision

William Marrion Branham saw seven visions in 1933. One included the end of the United States. Before this, a woman dressed in purple. Branham's prophecies had a pretty good track record, but these two are still outstanding. They were referred to a number of times over Branham's decades of ministry:

A) "Now, I predicted and said, 'I saw a great woman stand up, beautiful looking, dressed in real highly royals like purple,' and I got little parenthesis down here, 'She was a great ruler in the United States, perhaps the Catholic church.' A woman, some woman… I don’t know her to be the Catholic church. I don’t know. I can’t say. Only thing I seen, I seen the woman; that was all."

B) "Then in the sixth vision there arose up in America a most beautiful, but cruel woman. She held the people in her complete power. I believed that this was the rise of the Roman Catholic Church, though I knew it could possibly be a vision of some woman rising in great power in America due to a popular vote by women. The last and seventh vision was wherein I heard a most terrible explosion. As I turned to look I saw nothing but debris, craters, and smoke all over the land of America."

C) "Now, so then I said, 'There will be in that time, during that time the women will be permitted to vote, and they’ll elect the wrong person.' They did it on this last election. That’s right. 'Which will start the stronghold. During that time it’ll come to pass that–that there’ll be a great woman rise up in the United States, she’ll be beautifully dressed,' and I got in parenthesis: '(perhaps the Catholic church).' See? 'That’ll take rulership over the power, overpower the others in the United States. She’ll be beautiful to look at, but she’ll be cruel-hearted as she can be.' I said, 'Then I looked again, and I saw the United States just blowed to pieces. There wasn’t nothing left on it.' And I predicted then. 'Now this, that was THUS SAITH THE LORD.' And think! Of five of those seven predictions, has already happened. The church to take a hold, the Catholic church. And the coming of the end time. And I said, 'I seen, looked like there was stumps burning; rocks, blowed out; and the whole United States just looked bare, laying like that, as far as I could see where I was standing.'"

D) "And I seen a great woman rise up, beautiful to look at, but a cruel wicked heart. And that will be a church. And she’s on her road now...I see them coming on the road now. Oh, repent and flee from the wrath that is to come, church of the living God. Get back to the real Gospel, friend. You Methodists, you Baptists, you Pentecostals, the rest of you turn to God with all your heart, for your hours are short."

These are just a few of the recorded references. It is clear that Branham was not clear about what he had seen. "A great woman...beautiful to look at, but a cruel wicked heart." "She held the people in her complete power. I believed that this was the rise of the Roman Catholic Church, though I knew it could possibly be a vision of some woman rising in great power in America due to a popular vote by women." What he was clear about was that this beautifully dressed but cruel woman, a human woman or an organization like the Roman Catholic Church, would take control of the United States and bring about its destruction: "I heard a most terrible explosion. As I turned to look I saw nothing but debris, craters, and smoke all over the land of America...like there was stumps burning; rocks, blowed out; and the whole United States just looked bare, laying like that, as far as I could see where I was standing."

Branham said, "Watch the Iron Curtain, which will be Russia. Watch Red China. That’ll be the Bamboo Curtain. They’re horrible, but watch that Purple Curtain that’s rising in the United States and over the world, the Roman Empire, the cruelest of all of them." "There’s the PURPLE CURTAIN, you watch that curtain, that’s the deceiver." "It’s not him (ed. - the Roman Catholic "wrong" President); it’s that system behind him. Wait till she gets wormed into the cabinet, and everywhere she can, then watch what happen. Look what it done in other nations. Look what it’s always done."

What is covered up behind the beautiful Purple Curtain? The ignorance of man which believes God is a separate being, Satan. Revelation is a language, stuff for us to hear. Good stuff to keep, bad stuff to reject. Ignorance leads by deceit. It is deceptive and duplicitous to beguile us. "Isn't this beautiful?" But it is Satanic at the top. It seems noble and loving, but is for a SEPARATE god, not the True God (Who is All). Its legalistic adherents believe they perform service for their god by getting rid of us, but bring about their own destruction.

Childs (below) is a long haul. It tracks like an infomercial. Take him with a grain of salt. But something is there.

X Factor Winner Reveals World's Secret Religion - by Altiyan Childs
Altiyan Childs, the 2010 Australian X Factor winner, exposes Freemasons and Satanism.

The Law of Reversibility in Neville Goddard's Mental Diets

From the second paragraph of Neville Goddard's "Mental Diets" text:

"Speech is the image of mind; therefore, to change his mind, he must first change his speech. By 'speech' is meant those mental conversations we carry on with ourselves."

Notice the Law of Reversibility indicated in Neville's logic. He says that speech is the image of mind. But rather than say that to change one's speech one must change his or her mind, he says that to change one's mind, he or she must first change their speech. It is the change of speech which changes the mind. This is the Law of Reversibility applied.

Further applying the Law of Reversibility, one must change what he or she hears in one's mind to change the speaking in one's inner conversation that changes the mind. Thus the command throughout the Bible to HEAR. "Hear, O Israel...Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee" (Deuteronomy 5:1, Psalm 119:11 KJV). A search for 'hear' in Strong's Exhaustive Concordance online yields a whole new way of looking at the Bible. Have you ever wondered why it talks so much about hearing? Hearing changes everything! Hence affirmations and Bible tracts and preaching and testimonials. My mother kept sending loads of tracts and booklets after I had move to Hawaii to get away from her. After encountering a for-real deceiving spirit in a meditation and having the living Jesus intervene, I read the twelfth chapter of Revelation and the book of John with renewed interest. I had a whole new hearing and speech my mind. Then, Jesus changed my mind. The old me died, and the living Son took his place. THAT's a real change of mind!

Hearing Prayer

To hear
As though you heard,
Is to believe
That it is that way.

Neville Goddard 1955
Mental Diets recording
Mental Diets text

HEAR

I am repenting in dust and ashes. Boy, have I blown it. I have misread, I believe, the Shema in Deuteronomy 6. It says, "Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord." It struck me while reading Neville Goddard's lecture "Who are the Condemned?" that the Shema is not what to hear (that the Lord our God is one Lord), but why to hear - to hear because the Lord our God is one Lord. I.e., because the Lord our God is one Lord...HEAR! Hear what all the laws, commandments and ordinances being given are. Hear them all the time; hear them everywhere; speak of them, repeat them, and teach them. "HEAR what is being said, O Israel. Because the Lord our God is one Lord - the Imagination of the Ineffable! - Hear!"

Why should we hear? From the lecture: "Then he (Abdullah appearing to Neville) showed me a little instrument with a tape, and then he said, 'Now as you know, Neville, it only echoes; that’s all that it can do. That’s the world, the world is only mechanism, it’s just mechanical. The whole vast world, the eternal structure of God’s eternal world, all these garments they’re just as mechanical as that. And now, you’re not going to speak into it, you’re only going to hear, you’re going to listen, and what you listen to will play back there. What you listen to and hear from within you, as you actually hear it you’ll play it back there'" (parenthesis and emphasis mine)...

What we hear is what becomes.

"When I know what I want to be, I simply assume that I am it. But I’m not dumb, and so if I were it I would share my good fortune with others and I would tell them, and they, in turn, would talk to me and tell me, as a friend, how they rejoice because of my good fortune. So now I carry on a mental conversation from the premise of my wish fulfilled, carry it on with them, and listen carefully until I actually hear the sound of their voice within me. Physically they may be in Timbuktu—I don’t care where they are physically—the fact that I bring them in my mind’s eye and carry on with them this mental conversation. Then, in a way that I do not know in my conceptual mind, the thing happens, and I’m resurrected from my former state, which was a dead state, into this now new living state."

From How To Use Your Imagination: "Here is the way a lady wisely used this law of revision: It appears that two years ago she was ordered out of her daughter-in-law's home. For two years there was no correspondence. She had sent her grandson at least two dozen presents in that interval, but not one was ever acknowledged. Having heard the story of revision, this is what she did: As she retired at night, she mentally constructed two letters, one she imagined coming from her grandson, and the other from her daughter-in-law. In these letters they expressed deep affection for her and wondered why she had not called to see them. This she did for seven consecutive nights, holding in her imaginary hand the letter she imagined she had received and reading these letters over and over until it aroused within her the satisfaction of having heard."

This art of revision can be used in any department of your life. Take the matter of health. Suppose you were ill. Bring before your mind's eye the image of a friend. Put upon that face an expression which implies that he or she sees in you that which you want the whole world to see. Just imagine he is saying to you that he has never seen you look better, and you reply, "I have never felt better."

“Even what I have told you from the beginning. And when you have lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am he”

From Who are the Condemned? "The name is not Jesus. Name means 'nature.' The nature of this Son of God, he doesn’t believe in it; because Jesus is the Father. The world doesn’t know that; they can’t believe that. They speak of Jesus, Jesus being Jehovah, the grand I AM, that’s Jesus. If you spell it in French, you might get onto it: Je Suis. Spell Je Suis and you get Jesus—a little 'i,' drop the 'i'—Je Suis is 'I am' in French. And so you spell it out in the Latin form, you’re going to get I AM. So that is God. 'Go and tell them I AM (-Jesus -) has sent you' (Ex. 3:14). Who is speaking?—the Lord of the universe!...

"Therefore take the story…nothing is more important than that the story of Christ Jesus should be heard and responded to. In the Book of John it is underlined that necessity of hearing; one has to hear it (emphasis mine). So go and preach Jesus Christ not as secular history. Go and try to the best of your ability to unfold for anyone who will hear you the mystery of that story, because everyone is going to have it."

From Mental Diets (Mental Diets audio):

"Most of us are totally unaware of the fact that our inner conversations are the causes of the circumstance of our life..."

It would appear that our inner conversations are where the rubber of the Law of Reversibility meets the road.

"How would I send my Word to help a friend? I would imagine that I am hearing his voice, that he is physically present, that my hand is on him. I would then congratulate him on his good fortune, tell him that I have never seen him look better. I would listen as though I heard him; I would imagine that he is telling me he has never felt better, he has never been happier. And I would know that in this loving, knowing communion with another, a communion populous with loving thoughts and feelings, that my word was sent, and it shall not return unto me void, but it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it...

"'Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation.' It is only what is done now that counts, even though its effects may not be visible until tomorrow. We call, not out loud, but by an inner effort of intense attention. To listen attentively, as though you heard, is to create."

We call...by an inner effort of intense attention. To listen attentively, as though you heard, is to create.

You cannot visualize? Listen! Pretend you are for-real hearing what you desire on a telephone, as one of Neville's students suggested. She would hear, and then have all the emotions and excitement as though it were really heard. Do Jarrett's It Works listing and read your list with HEARING. (There is a later edition of It Works I am not familiar with.)

"Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God" (Psalm 50:23 KJV).
"He who is sacrificing praise honoureth Me, As to him who maketh a way, I cause him to look on the salvation of God!" (Young's Literal Translation).

It isn't merit; it's meditation. 

A Lao Tzu-ish proverb: "Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny."

Controlling the tongue is an inner thing.

Did Not The Law Of Reversibility Work For Neville? Can We Use It Intentionally?

It might escape you that Neville Goddard took the Law of Reversibility as the BASIS of what is going on in the world. "It is," he would say, "what we do." Not that he did, but he would have if I had asked him. He had come to the same conclusion anyway, as noted in the chapter below. Neville noted the Law of Reversibility from his own experience. How had he got pushed into meeting and studying Judaism and kabbalah with Abdullah and teaching the Bible and the Law? The Law of Reversibility. Neville lived as a strict ascetic. Says he in I Am All Imagination: "I was a strict vegetarian. I had not eaten one piece of meat or fish or fowl in seven years. No smoking, no alcohol, no sex; disillusioned in my first marriage, and the whole thing was simply — I became a celibate." HIS MIND WAS THE CAUSE. Allow me to note: the Law in the Bible is for meditation, not for merit. It tells us, "God is like this, not like that." We are to be like God; sin is unlike God. And it BUYS US SOMETHING: reversion.

Neville was laboring, heavily laden. "Abdullah said to me, 'You know, Neville, when you return from Barbados, you will have died!' He never explained a statement of that nature. 'You will have died.' I am coming back from Barbados, but I will have died!...in Barbados, I was the same being that I was when I arrived, to the annoyance of my family, for they made all their money in groceries – selling meat, fish, alcohol – everything; and I am enjoying a trip based upon their efforts, and yet I am not taking what they are offering. On my way north, I did everything I had not done in seven years. He was right: I 'died.' That state of consciousness died. That’s what died. Neville is the Immortal Being, — that is, the Inner Man is immortal. I was locked in a state. The state I departed from: so, as far as I am concerned, I died to that state."

Such is the fruit of the Law of Reversibility properly applied. The poles are intrinsically linked. If (a) will cause (b), (b) will cause (a). They are one thing. (X) will cause a certain joy; that certain joy we can use to cause (x). All we have to do is attain that certain joy. Ah! But attaining it - THAT's what we have to learn to do intentionally. We are doing it fine unintentionally, in ignorance. Practice prayer with purpose.
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"The Law of Reversibility," Chapter 1 of Prayer, The Art of Believing by Neville Goddard, included in his book Resurrection:

“Pray for my soul, more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of" (Tennyson)

Prayer is an art and requires practice. The first requirement is a controlled imagination. Parade and vain repetitions are foreign to prayer. Its exercise requires tranquility and peace of mind. “Use not vain repetitions,” for prayer is done in secret, and “thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.”

The ceremonies that are customarily used in prayer are mere superstitions and have been invented to give prayer an air of solemnity. Those who do practice the art of prayer are often ignorant of the laws that control it. They attribute the results obtained to the ceremonies and mistake the letter for the spirit. The essence of prayer is faith; but faith must be permeated with understanding to be given that active quality which it does not possess when standing alone. “Therefore, get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding."

This book is an attempt to reduce the unknown to the known, by pointing out conditions on which prayers are answered, and without which they cannot be answered. It defines the conditions governing prayer in laws that are simply a generalization of our observations.

The universal law of reversibility is the foundation on which its claims are based (emphasis mine).

Mechanical motion caused by speech was known for a long time before anyone dreamed of the possibility of an inverse transformation, that is, the reproduction of speech by mechanical motion (the phonograph). For a long time electricity was produced by friction without ever a thought that friction, in turn, could be produced by electricity. Whether or not man succeeds in reversing the transformation of a force, he knows, nevertheless, that all transformations of force are reversible. If heat can produce mechanical motion, so mechanical motion can produce heat. If electricity produces magnetism, magnetism too can develop electric currents. If the voice can cause undulatory currents, so can such currents reproduce the voice, and so on. Cause and effect, energy and matter, action and reaction are the same and inter-convertible.

This law is of the highest importance, because it enables you to foresee the inverse transformation once the direct transformation is verified. If you knew how you would feel were you to realize your objective, then, inversely, you would know what state you could realize were you to awaken in yourself such feeling. The injunction, to pray believing that you already possess what you pray for, is based upon a knowledge of the law of inverse transformation. If your realized prayer produces in you a definite feeling or state of consciousness, then, inversely, that particular feeling or state of consciousness must produce your realized prayer. Because all transformations of force are reversible, you should always assume the feeling of your fulfilled wish. You should awaken within you the feeling that you are and have that which heretofore you desired to be and possess. This is easily done by contemplating the joy that would be yours were your objective an accomplished fact, so that you live and move and have your being in the feeling that your wish is realized.

The feeling of the wish fulfilled, if assumed and sustained, must objectify the state that would have created it. This law explains why “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen,” and why “He calleth things that are not seen as though they were and things that were not seen become seen.” Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and continue feeling that it is fulfilled until that which you feel objectifies itself.

If a physical fact can produce a psychological state, a psychological state can produce a physical fact. If the effect (a) can be produced by the cause (b), then inversely, the effect (b) can be produced by the cause (a). Therefore I say unto you, “What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye have received them, and ye shall have them” (Mark 11:24 E. R. V.).
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New Neville Lectures

About twenty new-to-me lectures by Neville Goddard on the PDF page of Neville Goddard Text Archive. Most of them date from 1959 to 1965, with some more recent. Some are lectures I already have, but given on different dates in different cities.

Believing We Have Eternal Life To Get It

10. Whoever believes in the Son of God has this testimony in his soul. And whoever does not believe God, calls (makes) Him a liar, by not believing the testimony that God gives (testifies) about His Son.
11. And this is that testimony, that God has given us Life to [the end of] the universe (or, everlasting life), and this Life is in His Son.
12. Whoever takes the Son, also [receives the everlasting] Life, and whoever does not take the Son of God, does not [receive the everlasting] Life.
13. These things I write you so that you may know that you have Life eternal* (to the end of the universe), [you who] believe in these things in the name of the Son of God.
14. And this familiarity we have with Him, that whatever we ask of Him, He is pleased to hear us.
15. And if we ask in faith* (resolved) that He hears us in regard* to (over) anything that we may ask of Him, we can rest assured that we have already received the requests we made of Him (1 John 5:10-15 Alexander, notes incorporated).

Eternal Life with God, AS God, is a wonderful reward for believing. If we believe. We have to believe it to get it: "Believe ye receive, and ye shall have" (Mark 11:24). So taking the Son we believe we receive, that we have, and thus we have.

From Neville's lecture "One Greater Than John":

"When we open the Bible we think it is just a normal book. May I tell you, it is not; it is divine history and all the characters in scripture represent states of consciousness, from Adam to Jesus, every one. They’re not individuals as you and I are; they’re simply representatives of these states of awareness."

Taking the Son by belief we enter the STATE. Eternal Life is a feature of the state, and for certain the Jesus of that state is real.

The Only Way To Do It Is To Do It

Thus spake Rev. Jesse Mason of prayer. From Neville Goddard we learn much about how to pray, confident that God hears and grants what we believe into manifestation. Please do not forget that Party, the One we receive from. We are from Him, and what we receive is from Him. Practice prayer. The only way to pray is to pray. See what you want in the mind's eye with all the senses. Exaggerate it. Have it in action. BE there - move and touch it - live it. Relax and enjoy it, and be appreciative. Imagine what you want as though you had it, and revise what you did not want as though it had been what you did.

We are not performing magick. We are participating in the management of our lives. We pray and sleep in trust. We petition, and the Holy Ghost works things out. There is our evidence that She is there and in control. And for that we are glad and grateful.

More coming.

The Ghost Within

No wonder they called Her the Holy Ghost. We are in our minds watching our bodies being operated by an invisible directing force, a ghost. There is clear division of control, and we are not it! We observe another, and yet She is doing what we would, but cannot, AS US.

We sit there in agreement marveling at what is going on - what is being done by the Ghost - right inside of us! I think I am going back to that term, 'Ghost', for the all-knowing part of ourselves.

Malachi 3:10 Again

I ought to remind everyone that their Bible's Malachi 3:10 is bogus. God nevers asks you to test Him with tithing. His point was that they WERE testing Him by thithing and not appreciating His faithfulness to His word. "'have had mercy on you,' said the Lord. And you say, 'By what have you had mercy on us?'" (Malachi 1:2 Alexander). Throughout Malachi God is rebuking the Jews' demeaning of His Fatherly care and protections. "A son honors his father and a servant his Lord. If I am the Father, how are you honoring me, and if I am the Lord, how are you submitting to me?" (Malachi 1:6 Alexander).

In Malachi 3, the charge was not that they were not bringing their tithes, but by bringing their tithes they were EXPLOITING God, not honoring Him. THAT is what got them the curse:

"From the days of your ancestors* you have strayed from my commandments and you have not heeded them; [therefore,] return to me and I shall return to you," said the Almighty Lord. "And if you ask, 'How shall we return?' Why, does man exploit God as you have exploited me? And if you say, 'How have we exploited you?' In tithing and in first fruits. By curses you are cursed, and to me you are exploiting. All the nation brings its tithes into my stores and there is food in my house, and they test me with this," said the Almighty Lord, "and I open a window for you in heaven and shower you with blessings until you say, 'this is more than enough.' And I shall cry out against the pestilence so as it may not destroy the fruit of the earth, and not one of the earth's vines shall be ruined," said the Almighty Lord. "And all the nations shall glorify you, as you will become the land of my desire," said the Almighty Lord. "Your words [weigh] heavily on me," said the Lord. "And if you say, 'What did we say against you?' You said, 'It is in vain working for the Lord, and what wealth did we gain by guarding his treasures* and walking meekly before the Almighty Lord?'" (Malachi 3:7-14 Alexander).

They BROUGHT their tithes into the storehouse, and God faithfully showed the nations about them that they were the land of His desire, and they said, "This is vain. What did we gain? This god is a stupid idea. Let's go back to our idols." It is not a challenge to bring in the tithes to get a reward or to prove God is there or that you believe in God. It is a warning to do what is right and to HONOR OUR FATHER.

God And My Dualistic Nondualism

My theology is me. If yours isn't you, I don't know what you are thinking. For our theology has to fit our world. I live in a nondual world in that God is everything that is and isn't. God is me, the spirit and soul that is my mind, and He is all the makeup of my physical body. During my baptism in the Holy Spirit, I observed that my body was not being directed in its operations by my mind but by the Holy Spirit, i.e., by God Himself.

I was acting as an observer of God acting as an operator of my and His body. There were two of us working in concert in me. My mind, soul, and emotions (if I may make these distinctions) were all praise, worship and thanksgiving. Oh, how I loved and appreciated God! There were not English words I knew to express it, so the Holy Spirit was chiming in with some She knew. We - me and She - were one. And of course always are. But my part is still pretty stupid.

My point in this is that our minds operate in our bodies...as does God. God works in our bodies at the same time. But we are one being. We can live without thoughts and have our bodies get by just fine without us. In fact, probably better as our thoughts are not there to muck things up. But God does not apparently want this. The praise, honor, and worship God is due by right ought to be in our minds and on our lips 24/7, 365+ days a year.

Nonduality - Can It Be Tri-alitism? Comment By Siti

Received an e-mail from Siti in response to previous post. Slightly edited for clarity:

Dan,

I read your post a few times over and yes, I agree with you or rather understand what you’re saying in paragraphs 1 and 2, while I may not be able to articulate as well as you do.

The more I focus on “I am That” in my thought life, the more I see that “the earth is one living thing made up of multitudes of things,” as you say.

I have been practicing at controlling my thoughts…believing, having the mind of Christ, revisioning, not only for myself but for others, such as my coffee mates, and IT - the Ineffable - works!

Every day I notice changes in my thoughts…which constantly pull me into his Word like: pray without ceasing…and what THAT really means.

The whole chapter of Isaiah 55.
Praying takes on a whole different meaning now and why it says “without ceasing”…like stay connected in your thoughts as the Ineffable.
Also understanding that verse in Joshua 1:8, to meditate day and night.
And in the New Testament constantly seeing Jesus gone up to the mountain to pray/meditate. Paul in Romans 7:25 saying he worships God with his mind. In the Aramaic the word used is predilection: a prepossession of the mind in favor of something. So you know Paul must have been practicing the controlling his mind/thoughts about who he was in reality of the unseen realm within him, as opposed to the terrorizing Pharisee that he was on the outside - or rather the “state” he decided to change when he knew he could do that. (Ed. - i.e., by choice and submission.)
Scriptures become very easy to understand, and when I read it, my mind automatically flows from the inside reality, and thoughts of previous indoctrinations fall away.
In a way we live two lives but I’m focused more on the inside and the outer world becomes “strangely dim.” The inner becomes more dominant, ruling and reigning.

As for the rest of your post…your experience with the Holy Spirit…I also had the experience of my consciousness/mind being inside my body as an observer of what my body was doing. I experienced having no control of what my mouth was doing or saying. What’s funny is that I too spoke in an oriental tongue; I thought maybe it was Mongolian.

Bottom line: I’m thinking more “One” now with this understanding than before…and growing more loyal to the unseen reality.
I recently found a YouTube of Nevillution called “the Bread and the Wine” lecture excerpts (1959). That was very helpful.

PS You said you’ve gotten some flack.
Well, does Paul not say somewhere that the natural man cannot understand the mind of the Spirit/the inner reality/the kingdom of God.
People not knowing or dominated by the Ineffable will always come against those who do. Their indoctrinations will not allow them to agree with you.

Look what happened to the Ancient Prophets, Jesus, Paul, Nikola Tesla…ha!
And all the folks that have discovered cures for the dis-eases of humanity…were ridiculed or eliminated from the land.
Our purpose is to fulfill scripture and we have a manual for that, the Bible, the word of God, our autobiography.

Siti

Thank you, Siti!

Nonduality - Can It Be Tri-alitism?

I have a concept of God being at once the Ineffable (...?) beyond being, the consciousness of that (...?), and the manifestation of that consciousness. The idea is that God is all these three things at once, yet without separation or division; i.e., not at any time is He "two". I support this with the statement that advaita means "without division": "Not one, but not two."

I have gotten flack for this, told that such triunity in reality is a tri-ality, that advaita just means "not two," not "not one, but not two." "You cannot have two (or more) things in a nonduality." Admitedly, advaita does mean "not two," but if you have multiple things which appear to be dual but are in fact nondual, they must then exist without division. Which is my point. The earth is one living thing made up of multitudes of things. Our selves are so - spirit, soul, and body - and you are not you without all three. And we are all one. What is the point of nonduality if you only have a single thing to begin with?

I had an interesting experience with nonduality. During my baptism in the Holy Spirit as we call it, I was rejected by God due to my own self-lordship. I repented and rejected all self-control of myself - literally cast it out of myself - and surrendered completely to God. Fully submitted, I was conscious that I was a being, a consciousness granted to live as a mud-man in the here and now, and that the Ineffable (...?) who had given me Its life was present above me. In complete submission I said to It, "You are Glorious God, I am a mud-man. Whatever You want me to do, I will do it." And then I waited for instruction. I was not going to move until It said to move.

I waited in silence listening keenly - completely oblivious to my immediate surroundings. Then I heard that still, quiet voice, "Remember this, and it is all right." I was accepted. Here is the thing: I entered TWO ecstasies. One was my psychological emotions: I was at once thrilled, overjoyed, relieved, overwhelmed with love and appreciation for God's grace. I adored Him. The other was a welling up of excitement in my physical bowels. From deep in my gut rose a quivering flood of life, of the Holy Spirit (it actually did feel like rising, flowing water). Interestingly, the immersion is INSIDE. Wanting to express my appreciation and adoration of God, when the flooding power reached my lips, it came out as praise and worship in an oriental tongue. Which was cool, because I had gone there to ask for the gift of tongues.

Long story short, I, or rather my mind or consciousness, sat inside my body as an observer of what my body was doing. I exercised absolutely no control over my mouth or speaking. The power or life which had arisen in me was running the whole show. "I" was ecstatic over here in my mind, and It was ecstatic "over there" in my body. Believe me, I was very aware of the seeming duality. It [I (!)] was observer and Energy, "me" and "Life happening." This was nonduality, which I experienced as "a guest along for the ride." I think it is our destiny as conscii that after this sphere we are to imagine, and for Life to do its thing.

It Is Not Its Need, It Is Its Right

Someone said, "I will not believe in a god who needs worship and praise." Nor one who creates beings to be worshiped and praised by them. Well, it wasn't a need God had in creating us, it is a right He has for having created us. We did not just pop into existence on our own. We are FROM something which expanded and continued in us, and we are beholding to that something. It is simply right for us to worship, praise, and obey that which we came from. For we are not us apart from it, we are it...over here.